National Association of Realtors

A new housing report for Greater Hartford on Tuesday provided more upbeat signs for the spring market, with both sales and prices gaining in April for the second month in a row. The median sale price — where half the sales are above, half below — for a single-family house increased by 2.4 percent, to $210,000 from $205,000 a year earlier, according to the report from the Greater Hartford Association of Realtors. The 57-town area tracked by the association, stretching roughly from Enfield south to Middletown, saw its first gain in median prices in a year in March. "One thing I really liked is that we started to see some firming of median home prices," said Donald...

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A new housing report for Greater Hartford on Tuesday provided more upbeat signs for the spring market, with both sales and prices gaining in April for the second month in a row.
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